how to find empty folders without using -empty

lasse · #1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008

hi all:
my solaris FIND does not support

Code:

find myFolder -type d -empty

how can i find the empty folders?
thanks!

abanna · #2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008

du -ks * | sort -n

Result like that:

Size Dir Name
0 DEACT_TOTO

--------------------

Or

ls -ltr | grep "^d" | awk '{print $9}' | xargs -i du -ks {} | sort -n

lasse · #3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008

Code:

mkdir aa1 aa2
du -ks * |sort -n

the result is
1 aa1
1 aa2

and i TOUCH a new file in aa1, run again, the result still:
1 aa1
1 aa2

-size 0 can not work for empty folder

lasse · #4 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008

Hi all, does this code do the job?

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
find myfolder -type d|while read name
do
if (( $(ls -al $name|wc -l) == 3 ))
then
echo $name
fi
done

ghostdog74 · #5 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by lasse

Hi all, does this code do the job?

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
find myfolder -type d|while read name
do
if (( $(ls -al $name|wc -l) == 3 ))
then
echo $name
fi
done

try it out on the command line.

ghostdog74 · #6 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008

Code:

# ls -l * | awk '/total 0/{print last}{last=$0}'

lasse · #7 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghostdog74

try it out on the command line.

HI,
i wrote it and have tested but want someone to confirm.
thx

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